France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent?

by Philip P. Boucher

Book Overview

Traditionally, the story of the Greater Caribbean has been dominated by the narrative of Iberian hegemony, British colonization, the plantation regime, and the Haitian Revolution of the eighteenth century. Relatively little is known about the society and culture of this region--and particularly France's role in them--in the two centuries prior to the rise of the plantation complex of the eighteenth century. Here, historian Philip P. Boucher offers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801887267
• ISBN13: 9780801887260
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"